Snow leaves perpendicular to the motion in the rider's frame, so its outgoing horizontal velocity in the ice frame is . During , incoming snow brings zero horizontal momentum and outgoing snow carries . Thus
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Although the sled does not retain snow, it must continually supply the snow's departing horizontal momentum.

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